History prof Johnson denied tenure at CUNY – department was looking for “some women that we can live with”

From the NY Sun:

Twenty-three of the nation�s most prominent historians � including Donald Kagan of Yale and Ernest May and Akira Iriye of Harvard � have written a letter to the CUNY chancellor describing the decision to deny tenure to Robert David �KC� Johnson as �disastrous� and �unjust[.]�

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Mr. Johnson and his defenders say his two offenses against collegiality were objecting to a one-sided college-sponsored panel following the September 11 attacks and suggesting that a search that seemed predetermined to pick a woman � in need of �therapy� or not � instead be conducted on the merits.

�At the end of the day, all universities are the epitome of diversity. But there�s one diversity they don�t have � that�s diversity of opinion,� Mr. Wiesenfeld said.

Not that such things ever happen at Dartmouth…